» Brain MRIs May Provide An Early Diagnostic Marker For Dyslexia
01/24/12 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
Children at risk for dyslexia show differences in brain activity on MRI scans even before they begin learning to read, finds a study at Children\'s Hospital Boston. Since developmental dyslexia responds to early intervention, diagnosing chil..
» Invention Makes Children Eye Exams Inexpensive, Comprehensive, And Simple To Administer
01/20/12 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
Eighty-five percent of children\'s learning is related to vision. Yet in the U.S., 80 percent of children have never had an eye exam or any vision screening before kindergarten, statistics say. When they do, the vision screenings they ty..
» Listen Up: Abnormality In Auditory Processing Underlies Dyslexia
01/02/12 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
People with dyslexia often struggle with the ability to accurately decode and identify what they read. Although disrupted processing of speech sounds has been implicated in the underlying pathology of dyslexia, the basis of this disruption..
» Background Noise Levels Affect Dyslexic Adults
11/27/11 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
Dyslexia affects up to 17.5% of the population, but its cause remains somewhat unknown. A report published in the online journal PLoS ONE supports the hypothesis that the symptoms of dyslexia, including difficulties in reading, are at least..
» Intensive Training Helps Children With Reading And Writing Difficulties
10/06/11 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
Intensive daily training for a limited period is better for children with reading and writing difficulties than the traditional remedial tuition offered by schools, reveals new research from the University of Gothenburg. Around 5% of school..
» Brain Imaging Study Shows Physiological Basis Of Dyslexia
09/30/11 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have used an imaging technique to show that the brain activation patterns in children with poor reading skills and a low IQ are similar to those in poor readers with a typical IQ. Th..
» Phonological Impairment May Be Causing Dyslexia: MIT Study
08/02/11 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
New research shows dyslexia involves difficulty processing language sounds in dyslexic brains, or is being called \"phonological impairment.\" When people recognize voices, part of what helps make voice recognition accurate is noticing how pe..
» Dyslexia Involves Difficulty Processing Language Sounds In Dyslexic Brains
08/01/11 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
When people recognize voices, part of what helps make voice recognition accurate is noticing how people pronounce words differently. But individuals with dyslexia don\'t experience this familiar language advantage, say researchers. The likel..
» Children With Dyslexia May Benefit From Early Musical Games
06/29/11 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
Children with dyslexia often find it difficult to count the number of syllables in spoken words or to determine whether words rhyme. These subtle difficulties are seen across languages with different writing systems and they indicate that t..
» Unexpected Function Of Dyslexia Gene
06/21/11 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that a gene linked to dyslexia has a surprising biological function: it controls cilia, the antenna-like projections that cells use to communicate. Dyslexia is largely heredi..
» Those With Reading And Writing Difficulties Find Lifelong Learning Problematic
06/15/11 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
One Swede in five is considered to have difficulties reading and writing, and the affected individuals tend to encounter great problems in modern society. A new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg addresses their obstacles at ..
» Experts Would Like Specialized Teaching For Dyscalculia Introduced In Schools
05/29/11 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
Specialised teaching for individuals with dyscalculia, the mathematical equivalent of dyslexia, should be made widely available in mainstream education, according to a review of current research published in the journal Science...
» Video Games Crack The Speech Code
05/19/11 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
When we speak, our enunciation and pronunciation of words and syllables fluctuates and varies from person to person...
» Teachers Need Greater Awareness Of Language Disorders
05/19/11 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
Greater awareness of \'specific language impairment\' (SLI), a language disorder, is needed to ensure better outcomes for the 3-6 per cent of UK school children affected by this disability. Children with SLI have difficulties with most or..
» The Brain Against Words In The Mirror
04/01/11 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
Human beings understand words reflected in a mirror without thinking about it, just like those written normally, at least for a few instants. Researchers from the Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain and Languages (Spain) have shown this in a ..
» Explaining Henry Higgins\' Ability In My Fair Lady
03/16/11 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
When Professor Henry Higgins instructed Eliza Doolittle that it was \"Ay not I, O not Ow, Don\'t say \'Rine,\' say \'Rain\'\", he was drawing on years of experience as a professor of phonetics. But research funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Eur..
» Brain Imaging Predicts Future Reading Progress In Children With Dyslexia
12/22/10 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
Brain scans of adolescents with dyslexia can be used to predict the future improvement of their reading skills with an accuracy rate of up to 90 percent, new research indicates. Advanced analyses of the brain activity images are significant..
» Neuroimaging Helps To Predict Which Dyslexics Will Learn To Read
12/21/10 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have used sophisticated brain imaging to predict with 90 percent accuracy which teenagers with dyslexia would improve their reading skills over time...
» Elsevier Enables Its E-Books To Read Aloud, Increasing Access For People With Print Disabilities
12/11/10 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and solutions, has announced that it has enabled the text-to-speech option on all of its ePub book titles. The text-to-speec..
» Common Genetic Influences For ADHD And Reading Disability
12/09/10 from Dyslexia News From Medical News Today
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and developmental reading disability (RD) are complex childhood disorders that frequently occur together; if a child is experiencing trouble with reading, symptoms of ADHD are often also prese..